The same thing is happening today with a Republican official who emailed some friends a humorous photo of President Obama's face on a chimp and a punch line about his birth certificate. If your only context is what the Internet says about this story, you assume it's a typical racist act by a Republican who is already guilty by association. But if I add the context that Googling "George Bush monkey" gives you over 3 million hits, and most of them are jokes where President Bush's face is transposed on a monkey, you see what's really going on. Democrats and advocates of civil rights are using the media to further an agenda at the expense of a woman who was probably so non-racist that the photo in question didn't set off her alarms as being a career-ending risk. - Scott Adams, trying to defend douchey sock puppeting.
I use a morph of monkey George Bush for my Steam icon. It's pretty funny, I think, and the commonality of a monkey and Bush is.. intellect.
Adams leaves out the part where everyone.. and I mean everyone who is not really fucking stupid, knows the inherent racism involved in equating black people to monkeys. That's pretty obvious.
What Adams is doing is just the super douche defense, which is a variation of the Wookie defense. His blogging is often entertaining, but it is apparent that he's not a very nice person.
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